The Beast Must Die 1974  PG, 93 min.
Genre: Horror / Mystery
aka: Black Werewolf
Director: Paul Annett
Cast: Calvin Lockhart, Peter Cushing, Marlene Clark, Anton Diffring, Charles Gray, Ciaran Madden, Tom Chadbon, Michael Gambon, Sam Mansary, Andrew Lodge
When the full moon is waxing, millionaire Tom Newcliffe (Calvin Lockhart) invites six guests to his country estate. He knows that all summoned have links to cannibalism and has set up a high-tech surveillance system. One of the guests is a werewolf, and Tom's plan is to uncover its identity and hunt it down.
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Dance with a Stranger 1985  R, 102 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Mike Newell
Cast: Miranda Richardson, Rupert Everett, Ian Holm, Stratford Johns, Joanne Whalley, Matthew Carroll, Tom Chadbon, Jane Bertish, David Troughton, Susan Kyd
This film, set in London during the 1950s, is based on a true story that led to an infamous murder trial. Ruth Ellis (Miranda Richardson) was living with her 10-year-old son when she met playboy David Blakeley (Rupert Everett). Their ensuing romance was doomed from the start and ends with Ruth killing David. Ruth was hanged on 13 July 1955; she is the last woman executed in Great Britain.
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 Rebecca 1997  TV, 190 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jim O'Brien
Cast: Emilia Fox, Charles Dance, Diana Rigg, Faye Dunaway, Lucy Cohu, Geraldine James, Ian McDiarmid, John Horsley, Jonathan Cake, Denis Lill, Tom Chadbon
Based of Daphne Du Maurier's novel, this made-for-TV miniseries tells the tale of the young woman (Emilia Fox) who recently married the wealthy Maxim de Winter (Charles Dance) within a year of the death of his first wife, Rebecca. She finds that it is difficult for a middle-class woman to fit into the social world that she now inhabits. Even the housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers (Diana Rigg, in an Emmy-winning performance), who admired Rebecca, makes her life miserable. But even bigger problems lie ahead.
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| 1. The Beast Must Die (1974)
aka: Black Werewolf
2. Dance with a Stranger (1985)
3. Rebecca (1997)
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